ASIA BLOG AWARDS

Finally the best Bangladesh blog nominees are selected. Don't blame Myrick for the delay as he had to do the effort single handedly.The nominees for best Bangladesh Blog Q1 2006/2007 are as follows: Bengali FobElectrik BluesMac’s Savory ChorChorizMystic Saint Imperfect WorldOr How I Learned to Stop Worrying RajputroUnheard VoicesThe voting will start soon. This time a ranking of the above mentioned 8 blogs will be required from the voters. So please...

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Blog Day 2006: the celebration of Internet, Blogging and democracy

In one long moment In August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, Preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will find themselves leaping and discovering new, unknown Blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers. 31/08 = 3 1 o 8 = BlogToday I am sharing some personal information to help fellow bloggers living in other parts...

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Canary in the coal mine: what the deaths in Phulbari mean to Bangladesh

Is the price of coal more than human? At least 5 people died as the security forces opened fire on an uncontrollable protest by the inhabitants of Phulbari while they were demonstrating against the Asia Energy Corporation's Phulbari coal project, which is feared to have a great environmental impact if goes into operation. While the open pit method, a specific method of surface mining promises 80% extraction of the Phulbari reserves it has certain severe environmental impacts. If the project comes into commercial production, more than 100 villages...

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Today's Links

* Every shoe tells a story.* When is Web 2.0 releasing?* Is Bangladesh really becoming Afghanistan?* Who is censoring on behalf of Islam?* When Muslims kill Musli...

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Youtube video of the day

Wafa Sultan debating Islamic cleric.Hat tip: Sad...

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Today's Links

* 5 things to eat before you die: a guide to the globe.* Are we giving the terrorists what they want?* What does JK Rowling do with her money?* A virtual Rickshaw ride.* CNN: In the footsteps of Bin Laden.* A Muslim response to Prager’s ‘Five Question...

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Shammyobadi (The egalitarian)

I sing the songOf equality,Where all status and classBecome triviality.The Rendezvous of Hindu, Buddhist,Muslim or those of Christianity,I sing the songOf equality!Who are you? Persian? Jain?Shaotal, Til, Garo? Jew?Confucian? Charvaka-disciple?Anything else; something new?My friend!Be whatever you are,Or, whatever book or scroll you carryin your head or on your shoulder.Vedas, Tripitak,Or Quran - Puran,Avesta or another,read as much as you like or can.But why this foolhardinessWhacking your head with all your power,Why so much haggling in the market,When...

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How the recent Israel-Hizbullah war started

(source)No commen...

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Today's Links

* Watching Lebanon: Washington’s interests in Israel’s war.* The fuss over Hitler's Cross.* Visit Bangladesh before the tourists come.* Kayaking from Nepal to Bangladesh.* Guess who's doing passenger profiling now.* Why the world hates Ameri...

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It simply is not cricket

Cricket used to be a gentlemen's game. There was a time when batsmen would give away their wicket if he was convinced that he had nicked a ball, which went to the keeper's hand, before the umpire had their say. The umpires used to pat a player's shoulder telling that if he would go out of line next time he would be punished. Gone are the days.Now cricket has been more intensive and insensitive. Players and umpires like to stick to their egos. Lots of professionalisms are in stake now. The sponsors, the TV coverage, the politicians, the prides of...

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Plagiarized views, such is the state of anti-Bangladesh writings

I was shocked, as I was reading one artcile called 'Bangaldesh: New terror route' written by Mr. Vipin Agnihotri, who has a post graduate diploma in mass communication in India. He has posted the same article titled "Bangladesh: A New Terror Hub" in The Day After magazine. The first sentence seemed familiar to me and then I realized that it was from one of my writings posted in my blog as early as October, 2004. I could easily find from the blog archive my article titled 'India-Bangladesh relationship' and was much astonished to see certain section...

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Today's Links

* pakistan at 59: Avari asks, what was the point?* 50 coolest websites.* Google sight seeing.* 15 amazing things about Indians in USA.* 10 things you should never buy used.* Whoever "won", Lebanon lost.* After the war: scandals rock Israel.* If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Sau...

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8/21 the unsolved mystery

It has been 2 years since the grenade attacks on the Awami League leaders, including chief Sheikh Hasina, which left numerous dead and hundreds of persons crippled. 'Who was behind it?' the question remains unanswered till today. What should be the peoples' role now instead of just mourning the deaths? Politicization of the investigation process is one of the biggest failures of this governme...

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Bangladesh Blog Buzz

What the Bangladeshi blogs are saying:* Tourism: Razib at the South Asia Biz lists 12 reasons why you should travel Bangladesh -the land of greenery.* Education: Rajputro sheds a light on the reason behind the recent student protests in the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, his Alma Mater.* Business: South Asia Biz reports that in Sitaranpur, a Bangladesh village, human families are engaging themselves for making nests instead of birds for export to foreign countries. * Politics: Salam Dhaka is critic of the latest debacle between...

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The most beautiful ugly woman

What do these pictures have in common? All are the main character of the versions of the Colombian soap opera Betty La Fea. In different countries she is known as Betty, Lotte, Lety, Lisa or Jas...

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Today's Links

* How ideas spread.* You know you've been brain washed, if you....* US aid policy hits Bangladesh women.* A dangerous new reality for Israel.* Ahmadinejad's 'blog'.* The Saudi Riyal: evolution of a currency.* NASA selects Pakistani wom...

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Farewell, the civic poet

Shamsur Rahman (77) was one of the most acclaimed poet of Bangladesh. With more than 60 books to his credit, he was the most popular contemporary poet and nicknamed the civil poet. To know Shamsur Rahman’s poetry is to know his people and his country. He started at age 18 and was a career journalist in some of the leading Bangla newspapers. He was vocal against the religious fundamentalists of the country since long which had cost him a failed assassination...

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Profiling

I have been away for a tour in Belgium and the Netherlands and could not keep up with a lot of recent happenings in the world. The London terror plot saga produced much media buzz however the liquid explosive threat now seems to be exxagerated. The new cabin luggage rule created much outrage amongst the travelers put in a lot of misery.Today a Pakistani American women was detained in the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, West Virginia, USA and around 100 passengers were evacuated from the terminal on bomb scare. She was carrying a container with...

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Today's Links

* Wiping off the face of the Map. * 79 reasons why you should travel South Asia* Tibetan government in exile launches online TV site. * David Byrne on Jesus camps: like Madrassas, with less literacy. * The best flash animation in 20...

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Visa Discrimination

Qatar's the Peninsula reports quoting an official immigration watchdog:Thousands of would-be visitors to the United Kingdom are being illegally turned down for visas simply because they are from poor and repressive countries.Visa nationals from those countries are required to satisfy a higher burden of proof to obtain a visa than others because they meet a socio-economic profile that is believed to indicate they are a risk and provide little economic benefit to the UK if granted leave to enter. The discrimination is unlawful because there are no...

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Propaganda War

The Israel-Hizbullah war has gone to next level. Now people are manipulating pictures and news, which are produced in the media across the world. Reuters has withdrawn all 920 pictures of the Lebanese photographer Adnan Hajj on suspicion of doctoring picture. Hot Air & Pajamas Media has details of the manipulation of the photo. They are suspecting that Hajj is working for Hizbullah, who had manipulated press well.Meanwhile Spiegel Online reports, Israel is also good at catering foreign journalists with furnished information, all they need,...

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Heart failure

The intelligence of Bangladesh police was evident in a court hearing of the trial of the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists, who were caught with explosives.When Captain Tareq Rahman Khan of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) saw the Public Prosecutor, Shahidul Islam, uncovering the (live) explosives in front of the judge (produced as evidence), he admitted suffering temporary heart failure.(BBC)The police defended that they were not asked to diffuse th...

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Its a Wiki Wiki world

Via Andy Carvin, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announces:* One Laptop Per Child Project is including Wikipedia as one of the first elements in their content repository.* A new project called Wikiversity will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual learning materials, for all ages in all languages.* Wikia and SocialText is launching Wikiwyg. It will make it easier for more people to get involved in wiki editi...

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Quote of the day

"As I watch so much of the world ask Israel for restraint in a way no other country would (Can you imagine what Bush would do if a terrorist organization took over Canada and was lobbing missiles into Montana, Maine and Illinois?) - and, by the way, does anyone ever ask Hezbollah for restraint?"- Bill Maher in the Huffington P...

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National ID card, solution to many problems

Issue 1: from Bangladesh, the latest nonsense the world is seeing is that the Chief election commissioner is being accused of compiling a millions of Takas worth fresh voters list for the upcoming election. The election commission has completely scraped the previous voter list done five years ago not taking into account that updating the list could have saved a lot money. Of course there were political intrigues behind the both list as these were done under two different governments.Issue 2: Many countries such as USA and UK won't be accepting...

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TODAY'S LINKS

* Israel is backed by an army of cyber-soldiers.* What is Hizbullah?* Turbans do not equal Taliban.* How Google Earth is changing science.* The politics of alliance: Bangladesh experience.* The top 10 unintentionally worst company UR...

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AIR TORTURE

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Bombs on German trains

The two recent unexploded bombs caused stirs among many questing the security in Germany. So far Germany has been safe from the international terrorism that started in the mid nineteen nineties. Germany did not send soldiers to Iraq, that might have left the country out of the terrorists attentions. I think Germany's recent involvement in diplomacy to solve the Middle East conflicts may have changed this positi...

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Violence in Iraq

Insurgents do not like footba...

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OPINION

No commen...

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WHY WAL-MART PULLED OUT OF GERMANY

Via Varnam: because of German shopping habbits. German shoppers are accustomed to buying merchandise strictly based on price, German retail consultants say. They are willing to buy laundry detergent at one store and then go to another to get a better price on paper towels. That behavior is called "basket splitting." It is the antithesis of what American shoppers like: one-stop shopping. A big plank of Wal-Mart's strategy in the U.S. and elsewhere is getting shoppers to turn to it for an increasingly wide array of goods. (The Wall Street Jou...

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Israel is wrong. There aren't two sides to this anymore. I've heard all I want to hear from Israel. It's time to stop the attack on Hezbollah, withdraw back into Israel, stop firing bombs into Lebanon, and shut up for a while and let everyone else sort this out. It's not just Israel's problem. There are hundreds of millions of lives at stake in the Middle East, and this time not only has an Arab country, and that's what Hezbollah is, withstood Israel's attack, but they're also clearly justified in their response to the Israeli attack.I'm an American...

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TODAY'S LINKS

* I accuse you!* Die with love, version 2.0! * Debunking the "Ticking Bomb" argument for torture* One of three T-shirts in EU made in Bangladesh.* Obsession: What the war on terror is really about.* Foreign spies active, as polls in Bangladesh draw near. * Girls exceed boys in Bangladesh schoo...

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BOMB THEM

News: Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon declares: "Everyone who is still in south Lebanon is linked to Hezbolla...

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